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- The Week We Couldn't Know About New Year's [Week In Review]Today
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This week: death, gratuitous Australia-bashing, alcohol, and television.- John Travolta's son's death occasioned the usual macabre deceptions and speculations.
- Barack Obama sold his children to paparazzi and put our lives in the hands of some TV doctor (not even a good one like House!) and he has so many shady friends! No wonder America's Hero, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, stole Obama's house.
- The result of the genetic experiment to create the least likable scripted reality television show tangential cast-member ever also enjoys drugs and blowjobs, so maybe we're not so different, after all.
- The millionth season of MTV's gay panic game show The Re
- Kreepie Kats '09 in "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear a Pussy-Flavored Kondom Just to Check My Gmail" [Kreepie Kats]Today
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[Jim Behrle's Kartoon Kats are enjoying all the wonderful promise of this glorious hopeful new year. Also: Gawker sucks and "snark" is dead!] - <i>New York Times</i>' Keller in Denial Mode [Bill Keller]Today
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Succession politics plays out like palace intrigue at the New York Times and questions about how much longer executive editor Bill Keller plans to stay in his job are already stirring. Keller says, "Bullshit."Keller will turn 60 a week from Sunday, well shy of the typical 65 retirement age. But newsroom sources say there's been plenty of talk of Keller stepping down well short of that. Keller's been the top Times editor since 2003, came in as a calming influence after the turbulent two-year tenure of Howell Raines — which included a shower of Pulitzers, Jayson Blair and Judy Miller — to put a newsroom at war with itself back at ease. But these are hardly calm times for the newspaper business and there are rumblings in his newsroom that he doesn't want to stick around too much longer.
"Those rumors have been around pretty persistently," a veteran Times staffer told us today. "I heard on Monday that he's stepping down sometime by the end of the year. It's been a parlor game for months." Another Times source had told us he'd heard Keller was out sooner than that. So we called Keller
- The Twitterati Have Many Regrets [Twitterati]Today
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Twitter users are a sorry bunch. Especially the media! Errata, excuses, and eye-rolling from today's tweets:
"I'm a PC" Apple spokesvillain John Hodgman couldn't decide which brand of speaker wire to buy.
Former Star editor Bonnie Fuller was sorry she wasn't single while hitting the slopes.
AP reporter Phil Elliott wished he'd paid more
- Knowledge is Priceless [Trendwatch]Today
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Hawk-eyed sociopolitical trendspotter and inexplicable WSJ columnist Mark Penn unveils his latest Microtrend: People are using the internet, to learn about things. [WSJ]